Wolves Wild

Tapered drone fly, a common hoverfly species. gathering the easily accessible pollen from a Japanese anemone flower.

A shaggy parasol. It may have been kicked over, or perhaps some of the snails and slugs which had eaten chunks out of the cap had also nibbled away at the base of its stem.

A white-tailed bumble bee busy gathering pollen from the cone flowers in a front garden.

The West Park Canada geese parents, like the swans. were left with one surviving young. Here they were keeping guard as it fed by the edge of the lake.

I don’t know if this was a deliberate bit of conceptual planting, with the red hot poker flowers next to the smoke bush/

The West Park cygnet being escorted by its parents across the lake, and briefly imitating the pen’s feeding by the far bank.